FF and Chrome are pretty much even in terms of experience for me. But I only use Chrome for Google services because, in addition to the amount of data Gmail (half my email) and Youtube provide on their own, they also made my phone's OS and operate my cell and TV plans. Cutting Chrome was a pretty painless way of at least denying them my web and search history.

There's not a lot separating them besides boot time (Chrome) and developer options (FF - fight me) if you don't care about data vampires, though.

It's been long enough that I don't actually remember what was going wrong, but it was bad enough that I did two fresh installs before giving up. I've never really had a reason to go back, and seeing how much they like changing things that used to work perfectly fine with Youtube does not give me confidence in Google's services.

I use Srware Iron https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php which is Chrome modified : the same but does not spy you and I try to be careful with private data, web history etc. I also use alternatives to Google whenever I can but I have to admit that they are not that good (Duckgo, Qwant...)

Iron is compatible with addons but I guess they also spy you... Nevertheless it works fine and it's quick. The only downside being that it does not update itself currently.

I still use IE all the time because that is the default browser where I work. They installed Chrome as well, but I never use it. I randomly use IE at home but sparingly. My homepage was MSN as well until recently because that's what ASUS made it, and I was too lazy to change it. Edge is my default browser, but I haven't really tried it because there aren't very many extensions.

Now I know there's a reason you shouldn't blame others when you do something wrong, and that reason is: you might get caught and have to apologize to a bunch of dumb peasants.

I saw a thing recently about the most popular web browser and I was surprised by how many people used Chrome around the entire world. I thought people always complained about giving more power to the big man like Google. I've used FF all the time and will keep using it.

Google only made Chrome in the sense of the spyware and the brand name attached to it. It's made based on webkit like most other modern browsers, which was originated by the KDE linux team, and has since been forked and worked on by many others. There are tons of webkit browsers which work just as well, although if you care about stability then I would recommend Konqueror, which is the primary browser based on KDE's KHTML. Apple forked Webkit from KHTML and they then proceeded to piss off the KDE team by submitting tons of incorrectly documented changes to the codebase early on, as is the way with most commercial developers.

One of the reasons why Webkit browsers work better than others is because they're an expected majority. They are prioritised and in some cases, IIRC, it's been proven that Google intentionally makes their sites run worse on others like Firefox.

I muttered 'light as a board, stiff as a feather' for 2 days straight and now I've ascended, ;aughing at olympus and zeus is crying